Daniel, I think your missing the point, or I'm completely lost but I believe the point of the list is to tag domains with a registration date of a week or less when sending mail to you (prevent spam from newly registered domains). I may be off but that's the way I understand DOB.
Curtis LaMasters http://www.curtis-lamasters.com http://www.builtnetworks.com On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:52 PM, McDonald, Dan < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 15:44 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > > > > Ken A wrote: > > > Marc Perkel wrote: > > >> I don't know how this will work but I'm building the data now. For > > >> those of you who are familiar with Day old bread lists to detect new > > >> domains, as you know there's a lag time in the data and they often > > >> don't have data from all the registries. So - here's a different > > >> solution. > > >> > > >> What I'm thinking is to accumulate every domain name that interacts > > >> with my system and storing it in a list. Eventually after a week or > > >> so I should have a good list. Then the idea is to do a lookup to see > > >> if a new domain is NOT on the list. This will catch all really new > > >> domains, but will have some false positives. But - if it is mixed > > >> with other conditionals it might be a good way to detect and block > > >> spam from or linking to tasting domains. > > >> > > So, If for years I send mail to hundreds of people in my county, but > never anything to your spamtraps or your legitimate mail, and then one > day I decide to send you a single piece of mail, you will blacklist me > as DOB? > > > -- > Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX > Austin Energy > http://www.austinenergy.com > >
